Summer Season 2022
23RD JULY - 27TH AUGUST 2022
JOIN US THIS SUMMER SEASON FOR SOME FABULOUS FILMS, OLD AND NEW. BOOKING STARTS ON MONDAY 18TH JULY BUT YOU CAN SEND AN EMAIL APPLICATION FOR TICKETS NOW TO boxoffice@southwoldcinema.co.uk PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR MOBILE NUMBER AND ADDRESS IF YOU ARE NOT ALREADY A MEMBER (SEASON MEMBERSHIP COSTS £3 AND A MEMBER CAN BRING 3 GUESTS) PLEASE CHECK YOUR JUNK MAIL IF YOU ARE EXPECTING A REPLY FROM US. THANKS
THE CHAIN (SPECIAL OPENING NIGHT FOR LIFE MEMBERS)
Saturday, 23 July, 2022
Jack Rosenthal's entertaining story of London housemoving while exploring the seven deadly sins. With Warren Mitchell, Bernard Hill, Billie Whitelaw and Nigel Hawthorne.
Canapes, bubbly. Black tie. Some additional seats may be available for £15.
6.45 for 7.15pm.
Running Time:
100 minutes
Year of Release:
1984
Rated:
PG
Date has passed
SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS
Tuesday, 26 July, 2022
Arthur Ransome's Edwardian tale of young adventurers in the Lake District. With Virginia McKenna and Ronald Fraser.
Running Time:
92 minutes
Year of Release:
1974
Rated:
U
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EAST OF IPSWICH
Thursday, 28 July, 2022
Michael Palin's charming story based on his own experience of summer holidays in Southwold in the 1950s. With John Nettleton, Allan Cuthbertson.
Running Time:
75 minutes
Year of Release:
1987
Rated:
PG
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LES VACANCES DE MONSIEUR HULOT (MONSIEUR HULOT'S HOLIDAY)
Friday, 29 July, 2022
The enduring visual humour of the great Jacques Tati. French with subtitles but mainly visual. bw
Running Time:
114 minutes
Year of Release:
1953
Rated:
U
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THE DUKE
Saturday, 30 July, 2022
Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren star in this true story of the 1961 theft of the Duke of Wellington portrait by Goya. (Topically, the Dr No film showed it on the wall in the villain's den). Kempston Bunton owned up to it and was imprisoned following an amusing trial.
Running Time:
95 minutes
Year of Release:
2020
Rated:
12
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ARCHITECTURE FOR PLEASURE WALK
Monday, 1 August, 2022
Meet 6pm at town pump for John Bennett's 1 hour tour of the town. Tickets £10.
Running Time:
minutes
Year of Release:
Rated:
suitable for all ages
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HUGO
Tuesday, 2 August, 2022
Martin Scorsese directs this atmospheric film set in 1929 Paris and featuring Ben Kingsley as a retired George Melies, the great film pioneer, now running a station toy shop.
Running Time:
126 minutes
Year of Release:
2011
Rated:
U
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THE DIG
Thursday, 4 August, 2022
Based on John Preston's novel about the 1938 Sutton Hoo discovery in Suffolk and the excavation there. With Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan and Lily James.
Running Time:
112 minutes
Year of Release:
2021
Rated:
12A
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THREE MEN IN A BOAT
Friday, 5 August, 2022
Based on the anecdotal boating book by J K Jerome. With Tim Curry as J, Stephen Moore as George and Michael Palin as Harris. To say nothing of the dog.
Running Time:
64 minutes
Year of Release:
1975
Rated:
U
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THE COMMITMENTS
Saturday, 6 August, 2022
Alan Parker's brilliant and musical film charting the creation of an energetic Irish soul band. Great film, whether you are into soul music or not.
Running Time:
118 minutes
Year of Release:
1991
Rated:
15
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MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS
Tuesday, 9 August, 2022
Film version of the wonderful Gerald Durrell book with Imelda Staunton, Jason Watkins, Russell Tovey and Omid Djalili as Spiro.
Running Time:
90 minutes
Year of Release:
2005
Rated:
PG
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THE BRIDGE
Thursday, 11 August, 2022
A Walberswick story featuring the impressionist painter Philip Wilson Steer and based on the novel by Maggie Hemingway. Evocative fin de siecle love story.
Running Time:
102 minutes
Year of Release:
1992
Rated:
15
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WITHNAIL AND I
Friday, 12 August, 2022
"We've gone on holiday by mistake" laments resting actor Withnail (Richard E Grant) in this bohemian, now cult movie with Paul McGann and Richard Griffiths
Running Time:
107 minutes
Year of Release:
1987
Rated:
15
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THE GODFATHER
Saturday, 13 August, 2022
Fifty years on, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and James Caan in Francis Ford Coppola's great, timeless and remastered movie about the gangster dynasty.
Running Time:
175 minutes
Year of Release:
1972
Rated:
X
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THE SECRET GARDEN
Tuesday, 16 August, 2022
Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic featuring a young orphaned girl returned to England to stay with her Aunt and Uncle. With Maggie Smith and Kate Maberley.
Running Time:
101 minutes
Year of Release:
1993
Rated:
U
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DROWNING BY NUMBERS
Thursday, 18 August, 2022
Filmed in Southwold and along the coast, Peter Greenaway's film is a visual feast. With Joan Plowright, Bernard Hill and Juliet Stevenson. Contains sex and nudity.
Running Time:
118 minutes
Year of Release:
1988
Rated:
18
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THE MISSIONARY
Friday, 19 August, 2022
Michael Palin's brilliantly funny film featuring a vicar returning from Africa to take on a new challenge although not in the way envisaged by the bishop. With Maggie Smith, Phoebe Nicholls, Denholm Elliott, Trevor Howard, Michael Hordern, Neil Innis and Timothy Spall.
Running Time:
90 minutes
Year of Release:
1982
Rated:
15
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THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN
Saturday, 20 August, 2022
Mark Rylance plays golfing "legend" Maurice Flitcroft who managed to get into the 1976 Open Championship and played the worst round ever.
Running Time:
106 minutes
Year of Release:
2021
Rated:
12A
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BALLET SHOES
Tuesday, 23 August, 2022
The 1930s Noel Streatfeild tale of three orphan girls who succeed in different ways. With Emma Watson, Emilia Fox, Victoria Wood and Richard Griffiths.
Running Time:
85 minutes
Year of Release:
2007
Rated:
PG
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THE BOOKSHOP
Thursday, 25 August, 2022
Based on Penelope FitzGerald's story of a bookshop - originally in the Crooked House in Southwold High Street, and describing the variety of locals she encounters.
Running Time:
113 minutes
Year of Release:
2017
Rated:
PG
Limited Availability
PETER GRIMES AT ALDEBURGH BEACH
Friday, 26 August, 2022
The excellent 2013 performance of the great Benjamin Britten opera staged beautifully against the horizon on an ingenious set.
Running Time:
141 minutes
Year of Release:
2013
Rated:
PG
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THE HAPPIEST DAYS OF YOUR LIFE
Saturday, 27 August, 2022
Margaret Rutherford and Alastair Sim as headteachers of a boys and girls school who are obliged to share a school building. With Joyce Grenfell, Arthur Howard and Richard Wattis. Funny prequel to St Trinians films. bw